MetEye help

  1. Getting started
  2. First steps
  3. Find your location
    1. Zoom and move around
    2. Find a location
    3. Click anywhere
  4. Change what you see
    1. Latest weather
    2. Forecasts
    3. Overlay other layers
    4. Location markers and background layers
  5. Browse forward in time
  6. Animate and loop
  7. Accessibility
  8. Legends
  9. Enlarge the map
  10. Latitude/Longitude display and map scale
  11. Time zone
  12. Other links and metadata

Information on accessibility and alternative navigation

MetEye has text alternatives that provide equivalent information in a web accessible format, complying with WCAG 2.0.

Tip: In MetEye you are also able to navigate to all map controls using the Keyboard or alternative navigation device.

Note: Colour contrast tests have been conducted on individual map layers, however when overlaying several map layers it is possible that the colour combinations and contrast may make it difficult to interpret by users with vision impairment.

A text alternative to the map data has been provided as Text Views for most of the datasets displayed in MetEye.

Screenshot of Melbourne Weather overview, alternative Text View to MetEye.

There are two ways to be transferred from MetEye to the accessible Text Views:

  1. Via the Text Views button at the top of the MetEye window

    Example of Text Views button.

    When you click the Text Views button at the top of the MetEye window, you will be taken to the National summary page, which summarises the national capital city forecast and observational data sets displayed in MetEye.

    From this page you can either (i) navigate to the state view, which highlights forecast and observational data sets for locations in the state, or (ii) use the location search by entering your town or postcode or latitude/longitude coordinates (where available).

    Image showing where the Locate box is situated.

  2. The second way to switch from MetEye to the accessible Text Views is via MetEye's 7-day tabular forecast by clicking the 'See text views for location' link at the top of any tabular forecast popup.

    When you click the See text views for location link in the MetEye popup you switch to a web page showing details for that location in textual form.

    Image showing where the 'See text views for location' link is situated.

    All the text views allow you to return back to the MetEye map view by selecting the map view marker.

    Example of Text Views button.

    If a specific location has been selected in the Text Views then you will be transferred to MetEye, zoomed to this specific location and a 7-day tabular forecast will be displayed at that point.

    If you click on the Map View: MetEye button from the National or State text view you will return back to MetEye, but zoomed to the whole of Australia (i.e. fully zoomed out).